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It is through effective management training possible innovations are essential for the economy and the (further) development of products and services. However, the development of such innovations can be hampered in which executives only duties and responsibilities delegate and thus disturb the idea flows. The so-called management training focuses on managers not impeding emerging innovations, by creating an open environment, where staff can freely share their ideas. In today’s fast paced environment, the business processes must be aligned continuously at low cost and increased efficiency ideas. To do this, the company focus on improvements and innovations and must thus create an environment in which creativity on the part of the employee is promoted.

The innovations begin according to some management training experts in the Executive Suite. For this reason, the company policy on the single-minded achievement of innovations must be aligned. This is only possible by the ideas of the employees are granted free and unhindered and adapted these ideas not in the conventional ways of thinking. So an innovation-friendly environment can be created and appropriately motivated staff, senior management must ensure that the employees are permanently supported and allowed them to incorporate creative thinking into their work. Must the employees feel comfortable and have no fear of failure. Therefore, in particular the Guide as a tool is particularly important for the creative development of a company. There are management techniques that produce innovation behidern, because they only delegate tasks and enable not the employees to develop new ways of thinking and ideas. The mix between delegation and empowerment should be the objective for the leadership of an innovative company.

The Manager should support, consult and act as mentor, so that employees feel have, that they can go also risks on new ideas, without that they will be punished directly. Another successful means to Erohung of the creativity it’s called teamwork. Openness can be communicated within the team, so that the ideas are shared (possibly even as a brainstorming). Employees then have the feeling that they are a part of the team and contributed to the innovation. The corporate practice shows that employees would rather share their ideas in company with flat hierarchies, because they feel that their ideas be heard. For these reasons, the Manager must create a corporate culture in which employees feel a strong connection to their job and enjoy it. Research shows that such employees have more new ideas, because they operate their job passionately and therefore more intensively think about him. Those who feel less comfortable in the job follow a more conventional and thus innovation preventing ideas.